Elizabeth Andrews, 92; State’s Only Elected Congresswoman
Elizabeth Bullock Andrews, 92, the only woman elected to Congress from Alabama, died Dec. 3 in Birmingham, Ala. The cause of death was not reported.
Andrews won her House seat in a 1972 special election after the death of her husband, George W. Andrews, who held the seat for nearly 28 years. She ran unopposed, served nine months and chose not to run for reelection.
Two other Alabama women -- Maryon Pittman Allen and Dixie Bibb Graves -- were appointed to seats in the Senate.
Andrews initially rejected her nomination to fill the seat, then said she would run “if that is what the people of the 3rd District wanted.”
A native of Geneva, Ala., Andrews graduated from the University of Montevallo with a degree in home economics. She held teaching posts in Livingston and Union Springs, where she met her husband. She lived the last several years at a retirement home in Birmingham.
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